He’s strong. He’s steady. He’s silent.

He walks into every room carrying the weight of worlds no one else can see.

He protects, provides, and perseveres, but behind the calm, there’s a storm he never names.

Please Ask Him If He’s OK is a cinematic, soul-stirring journey into the quiet crisis of the modern man, the unspoken battle between faith and fatigue, purpose and pain.

Told in the commanding, heartfelt voice of J. Lewis Franklin, this work moves like a performance of truth. With the precision of a storyteller and the compassion of a brother, Franklin merges emotional honesty with timeless Scripture, revealing the heart beneath the armor, the man who loves deeply, leads faithfully, and yet silently breaks under the pressure of being “the strong one.”

Each chapter unfolds like a scene in a story we all recognize:

• The Quiet Weight Men Carry

• The Invisible Burden

• The Silent Erosion of the Mind

• The Moment Before the Breaking Point

• The Question That Can Save a Life

• Healing the Protector

• A Call to Brotherhood and Humanity

This isn’t just a message, it’s a movement.

A call to see the man who stands tall but trembles within.

A challenge to a culture that mistakes silence for strength.

A lifeline to every man who’s been strong for too long.

Franklin’s voice thunders with truth yet rests in grace, reminding us all that even the protector needs protecting, even the provider needs peace, and even the strong need saving.

Because sometimes, all he needs is someone to:

“Please ask him if he’s OK.”